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(No ModeL) G. E. MITCHELL.

FASTENING FOR NEGKTIES. No. 320,491. I Patented June 23, 1885.-

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. MITCHELL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FASTENING FOR NECKTIES.

PEGATIOIN forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,491, dated June 23, 1885.

(No model.)

T (LZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. MiToHELL, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fasteners for Neckties, of which the following specification, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide for securing neckties to their proper place on collars without the aid of a band passing around the collar, and in such manner that the necktie will neither shift up or down nor laterally.

My invention consists in connected movable arms shaped to engage the lower edge of the I collar and also the collar-button, and provided with a spring for holding them in position, and a pin for engaging the necktie, substantially as hereinafter particularly set forth and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my fastener, and Fig. 2 is a similar view with the fastener in position and a tie or bow shown in broken lines thereon.

A A are two arms, which may be counterparts of each other, and of elliptical shape, having their out-er ends turned back and up to form hooks B B, and their adjacent ends made substantially as fingers G C. These arms are crossed at their fingered ends and pivotally connected at G, so that said arms A A may be moved after the manner of pinchers.

D is a pin attached at E to one of the arms, and engaging a hook or guard,-F, on the other arm. This pin may have the spring H made as a coil integral therewith, and thus act after the manner of an ordinary safety-pin, or it may follow the construction of a brooch-pin,

the spring in the latter case being independent of the pin, but connecting the two arms. The office of the spring is to keep the fingers O O of the arms closed against each other, so as to securely retain whatever is engaged by them.

In operation, the bow or tie I (see broken lines, Fig. 2) is applied to the pin D, and said pin may be then engaged with its hook or guard. The fingers O O of the arms are next moved apart sufficientl y to embrace the shank of the collar-button back of the head a of such button, as shown in Fig. 2, and then the hooks B B are slipped up under the lower edge of the collar 1), as indicated in said figure. The hooks B B prevent the tie and its fastening from slipping Vertically and away from the collar, and the fingers GO prevent lateral displacement, and said hooks andfingers thus securely hold the tie in place against the possibility of accidental derangement.

hat I claim is- 1. In a necktie-fastener, the pivotally-con nected crossed arms having fingered ends to engage the collarbutton, a spring, and hooks to engage the lower edge of the collar to hold the fingered ends of the arms in operative position, combined with a pin to secure the tie or bow, substantially as set forth.

2. A necktie-fastener, comprising pivotallyconnected arms A A, having hooked ends B B, and-the fingers G O, a pin, D, and its guard, and a spring, H, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE E. MITCHELL.

Vi tn esses:

W. H. MAsoN, J OHN KYLE. 

